Date | Reporter | | Opponent | Bal. | Result | Comments |
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2022-11-22 | (A) Martí Cabré | vs | Eoin Corrigan | | Russian win | The Germans rushed their tanks early trying to do as much damage as possible to the Russian tanks. A KV got its threads destroyed and a couple of smaller tanks were destroyed, at a cost of all German tanks. Then with the Russians I slowly moved north keeping the group together and finally made a rush exit will all of them to avoid giving too many shots to the 88. Even so he could IF one last time for a win so with the last tank I moved into the gully and reached the map board moving inside the gully, using the Russian infantry to keep the German AT guns at bay, for a Russian win. |
2022-10-26 | (A) Craig Renier | vs | Jim Vasiliou | | German win | The Russians advanced slowly keeping AFVs and infantry together for support. The Germans gradually withdrew preventing any significant breakthrough. The Russians helped the defenders early when one AFV failed its mechanical reliability check and two more malf'd their MAs. One Russian MA was repaired, but another malf'd and the Germans immobilized another Russian AFV. On Turn 7, the German 37L was neutralized in CC offering a minor respite. But the 88 and last PzIII were covering the exit side. With only 4 AFVs remaining, one with a malf'd MA, the Russians made a valiant attempt to exit. The malf'd AFV moved to overrun the 88. The 88 wrecked the attacker but lost ROF. The last 3 Russian AFVs moved to exit. The Germans let the KY1 go, but struck as the T26s moved. With a single shot, one was wrecked and the Germans sealed a victory. |
2022-09-09 | (A) Craig Renier | vs | Dave Mareske | | German win | |
2022-09-09 | (D) Dave Mareske | vs | Craig Renier | | German win | While the German armor was not stellar, they managed to survive enough to keep the Russians from exiting. With two Malfed German tanks the Russians tried to make a quick exit, but the guns managed to get ROF and at least one CH. The German 88 was splitting open the KVs. This is a good maneuver scenario but I really think the Russians need to use all the time given to them. |
2022-05-10 | (A) Mark Hatfield | vs | Solo | | German win | Russian started out well. Lost the BT-5s (burning wrecks) and had one of the 3 KVs immobilized, but destroyed or recalled the entire Pz III platoon in exchange, over the first 2.5 turns. Which left the Germans with just a doorknocker (37L) and a 88 AA Gun. The doorknocker did nothing of course. The 88 knocked out both the remaining KVs (only 1 burned, but, sadly, no crew survived the other hit) as they made their bid to exit, and that was all she wrote. The 88 actually rolled boxcars on it's very first shot, to break it, during Defensive Fire, but was able to fix it immediately in the German RPh and then proceeded to destroy with rate everything it fired at, even when it had to turn (although it does have a turntable, so is a fast turret equivalent - although with the rolls it got it probably wouldn't have mattered anyway). The infantry for both sides was largely pointless, and unengaged for most of the scenario.
In hindsight, I believe the poor record for this scenario is largely because the Russian player is not patient enough. One resource the Russian has is time, and they need to use it. In this way, can they get all their tanks (including the radioless platoon-movement T-26s) into play in a meaningful way. The BT-5s are much faster than the other Russian tanks, but using this early is a fool's proposition (as I found out). They are the only Smoke platforms, and should be guarded carefully to be used as such during end-game. Their PRIMARY goal - smoke out the 88. That's pretty much it. Maybe Smoke out a Pz III if it helps. The Russians want to get setup to make a mass run, with all tanks they have left, to get off the enemy board-edge in 1 turn. This, along with the use of Smoke, and maybe sacrificial hindrances (burning tanks create smoke after all), and just plain trying to overwhelm the 88 with more tanks that it can shoot at, is the end-game goal, and what will carry the Russian through to victory.
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2022-01-16 | (D) Eric Partizan Eric | vs | | | German win | |
2021-05-26 | (A) Vilis Pavulans | vs | Matt Velazquez | | Russian win | Did not want ze germans to deploy that 88 so the russians used a very offensive strategy with all but one AFV pushing on in the middle and south part of the map. Ze germans picked off almost all the lighter AFVs with MG fire and their PZIIIs but the KVs managed to storm on ahead and take the hits needed to get in close for the kill. A bit slow unlimbering of the 88 made further advance possible and when everything came down to that all important shot the 88 Gun crew broke and the way ahead opened up to russian victory. Tight game though, with a little luck for the germans they would have had the victory. |
2021-05-05 | (D) Dwayne Duval | vs | Kevin Duval | | Russian win | Used Russian balance.A Russian victory at the top of turn 5. |
2021-05-05 | (A) Kevin Duval | vs | Dwayne Duval | | Russian win | Used Russian balance. Last tank, for the "hail-mary", made it through for the win on Turn 5. |
2020-10-09 | (A) Shane Pask | vs | | | German win | Russians have heaps of time but if the 88 gets time to deploy in a good position they are in trouble. As it was the 88 got one shot (and kill) before being disabled. However, the 9-2 AL claimed 2 kills (one through a narrow gap in the woods for the win), one KV broke its MA on its first shot (later disabled) and one BT was immobilised by a hull hit. Thought my tactics were good for once. All over turn 5. |
2020-05-20 | (D) Jacob Elmqvist | vs | David Elmqvist | | German win | The 88 ruled the day. Russians got 2 AFV immobilized which helped the Germans. |
2019-03-01 | (A) Dan Best | vs | Kermit Mullins | | German win | |
2019-03-01 | (D) Kermit Mullins | vs | Dan Best | | German win | Dan Best and I played a super fast game and it was over by the end of Turn 2. Dan's Soviet armor raced across Board 4 to take the win before the German 88 could get fully situated. My MK III's stopped the small tanks and managed to immobilize one KV-1 for the win. Good scenario. |
2015-04-07 | (D) Randy Strader | vs | Aaron Sibley | | Russian win | Got the 88 unlimbered, got multiple good D.I. shots on the KVs but couldn't yield a result. Would have been over more quickly had two of the KVs not immob'ed. But they did so where they still had a wide range of LOS, functioning sort of like armored cupolas. |
2015-04-07 | (A) Aaron Sibley | vs | Randy Strader | | Russian win | |
2015-02-25 | (A) Stanley Neo | vs | John K | | German win | |
2015-02-08 | (D) Jeff B | vs | Daniel Soukup | | German win | This one was over early as all the German toys did their part to knock the Russian AFVs down to two remaining by the end of Turn 3. |
2014-12-29 | (D) Dave Mareske | vs | Derek Duskin | | German win | First roll of the game was a critical hit on a tank; downhill from there for the Russians. |
2014-07-15 | (D) Ralph Shoukry | vs | DS | | German win | |
2014-07-02 | (D) Seumas Hoskins | vs | Matthew Clark | | Russian win | Russians made a rush down the forest road and lost a KV1 to a CH. Germans made a critical error involving the 88 (bogged) and was not able to get it setup properly in time before the russian armor started pouring offboard. Great match with some high stakes shots taken. |
2013-02-24 | (A) Andy Beaton | vs | Richard Hooks | | German win | The T26 of Death took care of the Panzer IIIs (that and overzealous IF), but nothing could escape the 88 and its impressive rate of fire. One KV left alive, way back on the board with a thrown track. |
2013-02-13 | (A) Richard Agnew | vs | solo | | German win | Hard one for the Russians to win. The Germans just lined up their tanks across the board and picked off the light tanks at will. One of the KV1's blew a transmission, while no less than 3 of Soviet tanks had malfunctioned MA! A very brave German gun crew survived PBF MG fire from a KV, then attacked and KO'd the beast in CC. Two of the T-26's tried to cross the board via the forest road, but were KO'd by a panzer III waiting for them at the west end of the forest. One of the tanks brewed up, eventually setting the entire forest on fire. I really enjoyed this game. |
2012-05-15 | (A) Will Willow | vs | Fred Schwarz | | German win | FTF |
2011-02-20 | (A) Miikka Sohlman | vs | Matti Holsti | | German win | |
2010-04-25 | (A) Keith Colins | vs | Scott Godfrey | | Russian win | |
2007-11-14 | (A) Fred Schwarz | vs | Eli Schwarz | | Russian win | |